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Says Alfred Renton Bridges (every one calls him Harry), for 30 years the controversial boss of West Coast dock workers, in his Australian cockney accent: "If someone wants to get me out of this job, the best way would be to call me a 'labor statesman.' " Yet that, in effect, is what a lot of people who do not want him out of his job are calling him nowadays. Examples...
...getting off the runway late, it already knows quite a bit about what has to be done. The only large jet in "the free world that has logged any substantial supersonic flight time is General Dynamics' B-58. Boeing has 100 engineers working fulltime; at its Renton plant near Seattle on a supersonic project. In its usual guarded fashion, Boeing has been testing models in wind tunnels for at least five years, has built a full-scale mock-up of a cabin section of a Mach 3 jetliner. North American Aviation is building three prototypes of the supersonic...
Trimmed in chocolate brown and canary yellow, the stubby jetliner with the peculiar T-shaped tail lifted off the runway at the Boeing Co.'s Renton plant near Seattle on its successful maiden flight. The plane is the Trijet medium-range 727, roughly three-quarters as large as Boeing's 707 and powered by three fanjet engines mounted in the rear. It is also the only commercial jetliner now under development in the U.S.-and it may be the last. While U.S. airframe companies are all but giving up planemaking, European planemakers are pushing ahead with bold...
...There was great emphasis on religion," Reston remembers. Playing cards were not allowed in the house. On Sundays the whole family walked two miles to morning Presbyterian services in Renton, Father Reston's birthplace, repeated the four-mile round trip for vespers. Sunday meals were cold, having been prepared the night before so that there would be no cooking on the Sabbath. Long hours of Bible and poetry reading inspired in Jimmy's heart the ambition to be a preacher, a calling that Reston's mother stoutly-and with considerable point-insists he is following today...
...years the U.S. Government has been attempting to deport Harry Renton Bridges, a native of Australia, whose rise to labor leadership-he has bossed West Coast longshoremen since 1934-was achieved with Communist help. The basic complaint: that Bridges himself is a troublemaking Communist...